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World of FootballAll non Palace football talk - includes latest scores on Internationals and matches that affect palace.

He got more than that in less thn a season at a relegated side in the championship.

If he doesn't score a hatful playing for by far the best team in the division he should be ashamed. I reckon he'll get 10-15, but let's not forget Camerone Jerone got 18 for Norwich in the Championship.

Truth is he simply isn't good enough for the Premier League. We got good money for him & he scored some critical goals for us, particularly in that first season.
But I very much doubt this is a transfer that will come back to bite us.

He got more than that in less thn a season at a relegated side in the championship.

Unfortunately he didn't get more than 10 that season. He played 20 league games for Peterborough in 2012/2013 and got 9 goals. Amazing to think a player at 26, who hasn't scored more than 9 league goals in any season in his career, has had combined transfer fees of over 17 million, and yet was still compared to Owen, Defoe etc. With his injury /sickness record, and the competition at Newcastle, I doubt if he will start more than 20 games for Newcastle this season. He won't enjoy the physical side of the championship either, something I suspect he got a name for not liking with various premiership defenders such as Huth and Collocini in what few matches he started in the Premiership.